Replication Data for “Anachro-Knowledge: Officeholder Change and Outdated Political Knowledge”
Melissa Burgess and Todd Makse
August 2025

Statistical software: all analyses conducted in STATA IC 16.1

Table of Contents

Anachro Codebook.pdf
Names, descriptions and sources of all variables in the datasets. 

Anachro Do File.do
STATA code for running all analyses from the paper and appendices

Anachro Replication Data.dta
Dataset for main analyses, in STATA format

Anachro City Sample Representativeness.dta
Ancillary data for comparing city sample to comparison population, in STATA format.

Anachro Within City Representativeness.dta
Ancillary data for comparing sample to population within cities, in STATA format.

Anachro Response Averages by Office.dta
Ancillary data for comparing means across officeholders, in STATA format.









